This Bible study on Understanding the Battle of Spiritual Warfare will give us a foundation on where, how and what the battles look like in our lives. Every day victory is achieved by knowing, believing and understanding the battles that we are enduring daily, regardless if we are passive or active in the battles.ĭo you want all that God has for you on this earth right now, or do you want to wait until you get to heaven to receive the victory and blessings?
But the Matthew 28:18 verse is not only about our salvation it is also about our every day victory, which adds up to victorious living in Christ. Many of us enter into that covenant of salvation by grace. Jesus told us in Matthew 28:18 that, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.” We now have the privilege of having an eternal relationship with God. However, in the spiritual realm, there is a battle going on regardless of our opinion.
Those attitudes, beliefs and convictions will transfer over to the spiritual realm. War is very controversial today in the physical realm. Christian teachings about Jesus' incarnation and resurrction led them to treat the human body with respect.'"Ĭremation served as evidence of "'the pagan denial of Christian beliefs about the afterlife, especially the belief in the resurrection of the dead.We have to ask ourselves, “Why do we even want to fight spiritual warfare?” It will do us no good to educate ourselves on the battle if we see no reason for the fight. Late evangelical leader Chuck Colson, the founder of Prison Fellowship and BreakPoint radio who passed away in 2012, previously said that traditionally Christians have regarded cremation with "some suspicion" because in the early Church the burning of the dead was a practice used by pagans.Īs published in The Christian Post, Colson said, as summarized by Eric Metaxas, "'In contrast. The Minnesota pastor concludes his message with a "modest proposal," calling on Christians to "cultivate a Christian counter-culture where people expect simple, less expensive funerals and burials," as well as embrace a "God-centered, gospel-rooted burial" instead of cremation, adding that this suggestion is "rich with Christian truth that will become a clearer and clearer witness as our society becomes less and less Christian." It was not a glorious treatment of the body but a contemptuous one," Piper writes.Īdditionally, fire is associated with hell, torture and injury, and therefore ending our lives here on earth with fire does not fall in line with biblical teaching, Piper adds. "The use of fire to consume the human body on earth was seen as a sign of contempt. "Burial - sowing the seed of the body - is the biblical picture of belief in the resurrection of the body," Piper writes.Īlong with the importance of resurrection, the Bible also leads Christians away from cremation due to its repeated condemnation of fire as evil and damaging. Piper then references 1 Corinthians 15:37, 42-44 as evidence that the body is destined for "resurrection glory," just as Jesus was resurrected after being in a human body here on earth. "Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit Christ died to purchase us, including the purchase of our bodies, for himself Therefore our bodies do not belong to us to use as we please, but rather as he pleases Therefore, we should use our bodies to put the glory of God on display," Piper writes. "Glorifying God is what the body is for - in life and in death," Piper writes, pointing to Philipians 1:20. The pastor points to several Bible verses that discuss the glorification of the human body, and how we should treat our bodies as God's dwelling, God's purchase, God's possession, and God's glory, both in life and death.
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